The 45th WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, the oldest independent film festival in the world, will be giving a top award to the film “Free China: The Courage To Believe.”
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The 45th WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, the oldest independent film festival in the world, will be giving a top award to the film “Free China: The Courage To Believe.”
Zeng and Lee were arrested, illegally sentenced, sent to forced labor camps, and tortured. As their stories unfold, the movie unveils a side of China that the Chinese Communist Party has labored to keep covered up for decades.
“I had no idea there were more than 70 million Falun Gong practitioners in China before the crackdown. And almost no one I knew knew about it either,” Perlman said. “I thought that it was really important to get this into the mainstream consciousness, that this was a beautiful movement, a peaceful movement, that was being so oppressed.”
“I hope this film changes our world,” said Margaret Chew Barringer, a poet and filmmaker. The film festival is the latest initiative from American Insight, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting free speech founded by Barringer. “Free China” was screened to a full house in the Benjamin Franklin Hall.
The documentary Free China: The Courage to Believe is centered around two Falun Gong practitioners who have been imprisoned for their beliefs—Jennifer Zeng, a former communist party member, and Dr. Charles Lee, a Chinese-American businessman.